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For the last six months, IBM has been testing a pilot project in Fayetteville, North Carolina, that aimed to find out what kind of energy savings could be realized by utilizing the smart grid and implementing simple habit

Google Earth has a new application that shows carbon dioxide in different layers of the earth's atmosphere. Tyler Erickson, a geospatial researcher at the Michigan Tech Research Institute in Ann Arbor, responded to a competition call

Computer and electronics manufacturer HP announced today its goal to reduce its energy consumption and green house gas emissions of its products to 40% under its 2005 levels, all by 2011. As the Greenpeace tagging incident underscored, HP doesn't always

When it comes to mapping out Earth's coastlines and getting a detailed record of them globally, what better spot to set up shop than 225 miles overhead? The Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO) - new

Computers can offset their own emissions via tools like Little Green Genie, but what if they can also offset at least some of their emissions by growing it's own mini carbon capture and storage utility on its back in the form of a desk

In May, Cisco positioned itself as the next big kid on the smart grid block. Today, a new announcement shows that that position seems to be panning out. The company is working hard to create an "ecosystem" with companies

Last year we heard about a nuclear power plant in Hanau, Germany being converted into a green data center. It looks like structures from the cold war past are helping out data centers once again, this time in Sweden. Check out the bat-cave-like data

I know this might sound a little creepy weird, but thanks to the good folks at Little Green Genie (LGG), your computer can now calculate its own carbon footprint and purchase the related offsets. We knew the world of

From a giant rat-eating plant to Woodstock's 40th year anniversary, a lot happened this week. General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson announced that the Chevy Volt gets a rating of 230 miles per gallon in city driving; thieves broke into the cash for

EPEAT has become a go-to resource for finding out the green features of computers, monitors and other electronics. It ranks a computer into Bronze, Silver or Gold levels based on things like energy efficiency, packaging, ease of recyclability and so on.

We normally spend time talking about how idle gadgets and vampire power are some of the biggest energy drains that are simple to solve. However, every so often we find projects that give us a reason to leave the computer on stand-by during a lunch

Netbooks are those wonderfully tiny, ultra-portable computers that are all the rage right now, beating out notebook sales in 2008 and beating their own sales in the first quarter of 2009. They're stripped down versions

Granted, there seems to be no end to the cool things we can create from Altoids tins - cameras, emergency kits, solar powered gadget chargers. But an entire computer?! Yep, someone pulled it off. Time for famously portable